“The U.S. Court of Appeals has denied Samsung’s bid for a second re-hearing of the storied 2014 patent trial with apple, covering auto-correct, quick links, and slide-to-unlock, and is now on the hook for the $119.6 million ruling,” Mike Wuerthele reports for AppleInsider.

“The Court of Appeals made no comment on the refusal of the appeal effort by Samsung,” Wuerthele reports. “Samsung’s only venue for relief on the matter is the Supreme Court, should it decide to pursue that avenue.”

“A previous appeal filed by Samsung in January resulted in the verdict getting tossed in February, and found the patents either not obvious, or infringed,” Wuerthele reports. “On review, a full court ruled in an 8-3 vote in October to reaffirm the verdict, and the $119.6 million award.”

The main reason why Samsung et al. were able to sell phones and tablets at all was because they made fake iPhones and fake iPads designed to fool the unwitting (who are now finally waking up in droves, by the way, and upgrading to iPhones in ever-increasing numbers) in much the same way as how Microsoft et al. profited wildly from upside-down and backwards fake Macs at the end of the 20th century. Google, Samsung, HTC, Xiaomi, et al. are the Microsofts, HPs, Dells, and eMachines of the new century.

Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:

Here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:

And, here’s what cellphones looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone: